An example of the futility of asking Love for help Lidio is unfaithful…again…still? In RARA format with a sensuous first aria and an allegro finish with dramatic sighing pauses.
Source: MSS in LBL and I Nc

Editor: James Sanderson

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Cantata for contralto and continuo

Source is the BL Add 14213

The chains of Love are about to be thrown off in the RARA format cantata by the composer more famous for his sacred repertoire

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add MS 14220 ff 18r – 21v<br>
A complex piece with an excellent vari-tempo final aria. The text can be summed up in two lines from the first recit: Written in blood, these tormented words my betrayed heart sends to you…Think, think how much I have loved you, know that you are not mine, and weep for the pity of my plight<br>
Range: d – g’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Clori has left and he seeks her ‘…beautiful eyes to lift his sorrow…’ but is she as faithful as he would like? Only time will tell! A large ARARA format cantata with three lovely arias and some complex recitative writing. From the Naples Conservatorio collection.

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A charming cantata filled with indecision and containing one of Mancini’s most beautifula arias. A young man loves both Cintia and Irene and really doesn’t know what to do – can you help? RARA format. <br>
Source: Münster Santini Sammlung HS 3904(5) <br>
Range: c – g’

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Source BL Add 14211 f 42 – 50v

Once again an interesting construction for this extensive cantata. Recit, aria, recit, aria, recit, minuet, recit which becomes arioso. Some very beautiful writing and moods that swing from Adone’s lament at Clori’s bad behaviour to arias about finding joy only in the beloved’s face.

Range: c#’ – g”

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What is worse, to be near an unfaithful love or separated from a faithful one? This is the question our singer poses: ‘Examine my heart…’. This is a delightful lontananza cantata which gives into the ‘Forces of the nude archer…’. Cupid has been busy again, clearly!

Source: Naples Conservatorio di Musica S Pietro a Majella.

Editor: James Sanderson

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A marvellous work by Mancini in RARA format – the recitatives are extensive and harmonically complex. The subject deals with infidelity and starts with the (female) protagonist railing at Lidio, calling him unfaithful, liar etc. The last aria ends, however, with the decision to match his betrayal with her own! <br>
Source: Münster HS 2459(12) <br>
Range: a – d’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: 2 copies in the British Library

This is not a cantata to win friends and influence people within the ‘feminist movement’. The final (strangely written) aria uses the text: You are a woman, so I expect you to be inconstant and unfaithful, but I forgive you; I am a man and will fall in love with other women, just enjoy it!. It’s either a very modern marriage or slightly insulting, you decide. In two recit and aria format, the arias both largo and without ritornelli.<br>
Range: d – g’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add 14214 ff 170v – 177v (only source)

In recit – aria – recit – aria form with some interesting recitative-like passages in the b section of the second aria. As usual the setting of the recitatives is particularly clearly defined. The text is in the first person, a shepherdess railing against the unfaithful Tirsi.<br>
Range: b – a”

Editor: James Sanderson

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